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Nah, vCPU is generally just hyperthreading. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/cpu-options-supported-instances-values.html#cpu-options-comp

Nah, vCPU is generally just hyperthreading. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/cpu-options-supported-instances-values.html#cpu-options-compute-optimized https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/cpu-opti... So you get 2 vCPUs per core.

staindk 4y ago
Thanks for the link, that's great to know about AWS. I don't think all other VPS providers are that good about things - googling around for some other definitions of vCPU (in VPS context) I see a lot of examples of 16 thread server CPUs handling "128 vCPUs".